medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Christopher Crockett wrote:
> From: Robert Kraft <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> I don't understand the following claim from "Frank" (excerpted from
>> a longer posting):
>
>>> The simple, undeniable fact is that the majority of documentary
>>> sources we
>>> have for the first three centuries of the present era deal with Jesus
>>> of Nazareth and/or the Christian church....The simple fact is there
>>> is far, far better documentary evidence for the events in the
>>> life of Jesus from Nazareth than there is for those of the life of
>>> Julius Caesar.
>
> thanks, Bob, for responding to this, which struck me as rather weird
> as it went past but which i certainly didn't have the WhereWithAll to
> question in any detail.
Well, you could have pointed out that Julius Caesar didn't make it into "the
first three centuries of the present era" :-)
John Briggs
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